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Smoking initiation : peers and personality

Hsieh, Chih-sheng; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

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The dark side of personality : anti-sociality increases strategic game play

Engelmann, Jan; Schmid, Basil; Chumbley, Justin; Fehr, Ernst - 2018

preferences. We identified a personality profile that clearly reflects anti-social personality characteristics, with high positive …We assess the role of anti-social personality traits in explaining heterogeneity in commonly observed social … personality on investor trust and trustee reciprocity in the presence relative to the absence of the investor's option to punish …

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A dynamic model of investor decision-making : how adaptation to losses affects future selling decisions

Lee, Carmen; Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, André; Paas, … - 2008

We conduct an experiment to test whether the size of a loss and the time in a losing position affect investors’ adaptation to the loss situation and, subsequently, whether this adaptation affects future investment decisions. As investors adapt to losses, their neutral reference point shifts...

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Are entrepreneurs more optimistic and overconfident than managers and employees?

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015

Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than others. However, the same holds true for top managers. In this lab-in-the-field experiment we directly compare the scores of entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive...

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Deception and self-deception

Schwardman, Peter; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

We experimentally investigate the determinants of overconfidence and test the hypothesis, advanced by Robert Trivers, that overconfidence serves to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed about the...

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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms

Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016

Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...

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Self-confidence and strategic deterrence

Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - 2011

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Winning by losing : evidence on overbidding in mergers

Malmendier, Ulrike; Moretti, Enrico; Peters, Florian - 2011

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Education and efficient redistribution

Dur, Robert A. J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003 - This version: June 2003

Should education be subsidized for the purpose of redistribution? The usual argument against subsidies to education above the primary level is that the rich take up most education, so a subsidy would increase inequality. We show that there is a counteracting effect: an increase in the stock of...

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Acquiring knowledge over the economist’s lifetime

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 1997

In this paper the reading behaviour of economists is examined to see whether particular typesof knowledge - basic and applied - imply different investment patterns. As it turns out, thereading intensity of advanced theoretical and empirical literature declines with three to fourpercent per year...

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